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| Thursday, August 23 03:12 PM |
| As The World Churns, Urban Exposé Returns... |
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As we approach the Autumnal equinox we find thoughts turning to school and work. Protractors, compasses and index cards dance in our head. It’s time to reflect on the hedonistic summer that was and begin to somberly accept that it’s time to buckle down and go back to work. Incidentally, reports of our death were greatly exaggerated. With aplomb, we return to the art of the exposé.
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| Friday, November 10 08:07 PM |
| Isn't That Nice? AKA Blames Adam Kidron and UBO for Its Demise. |
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AKA dumped the rest of their staff on Friday. Instead of blaming their own inability to attract advertisers, they blame Adam Kidron. UBO was inept enough to agree to give a dying music site network millions of dollars to run ads for their own underdeveloped properties. The fall of the UBO behemoth will have a domino effect for several ad networks that relied on revenue from UBO to keep them aloft. You know, bla-bla bla.
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| Thursday, August 31 07:36 PM |
| It's The 3 Man Threat, What You See Is What You Get. |
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Using a trick perfected by used car salesmen, Russell Simmons will successfully beat BET.com out of cash. He sold them on the idea of having a high-tech, well-designed, broadband entertainment destination that would be attractive to a young, web savvy demographic, which BET already had whilst enriching himself and unloading a turkey from around his neck.
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| Tuesday, August 15 11:10 PM |
| SAR Tries to Pick Urban Stars, Flatiron Funded Sites Get Marred. |
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Silicon Alley Reporter is best known as a high school yearbook of everyone who has eaten at Nobu's with Jason McCabe Calacanis rather than as a new economy industry magazine. Following the lead of other trade journals such as Inside.com and the Industry Standard, Jason decided to do a cover story on urban content sites. The story snubbed UBO and Hookt, and tries to play nice to Jason's newest friend, 360hiphop.
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| Sunday, August 19 11:03 PM |
| CODE Deciphered: Past, present and future! |
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Larry Flynt Publications, as well as the whole Larry Flynt empire, is undergoing a restructuring of sorts, and CODE Magazine, along with several other titles and holdings (including LFP headquarters in Beverly Hills) have been put up on the block for a rumored price tag of around 8 million dollars. So what’s in the future for CODE magazine and the HNIC, Editor-in Chief Eugene Robinson? I sat down with him and he spoke on LFP, the sexual orientation of magazines, as well as the history and future of CODE Magazine.
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| Thursday, August 10 09:53 AM |
| The Funny Face That Runs Trace |
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Claude Grunitsky, publisher of Trace, thought of a way to propel his fashion magazine to higher ad revenues. Inspired by that influential English style of hip-hop, characterized by such groups as the Cookie Crew. Claude cleverly tacked on Urban to the title of his periodical and the revolutionary idea of mixing Paris fashion with New York street life was born.
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| Thursday, July 20 03:31 PM |
| I Told You To Turn Down The Volume, NOW TURN IT OFF! |
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Volume.com it seems may never get to turn it up. Its original strategy was to build a flashy urban portal with no clear strategy other than to have puff pieces and video clips of celebrities. Before they even launched they were ordered to scrap all the content they had and build a blackplanet-esque community site. AOL's merger with Time Warner put Volume.com under intense scrutiny. Evidently AOL wasn't impressed.
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| Monday, July 10 01:20 PM |
| Miller Publishing Tries Iron Pyrite Ploy To Attract Buyers For SPIN/VIBE Ventures. |
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Miller publishing has been trying to dump SPIN/VIBE ventures since last year. They were asking for over $200 million for the three magazines (SPIN/VIBE/BLAZE). There of course were no takers. The 3 ailing magazines with no soul, no direction, and a dwindling market share leaves potential buyers cool. The three magazines all suffered from the same management mistakes. One of the main reasons for the value loss lied in their lack of an Internet strategy. They lost their chance to capitalize from the online market space for their respective genres.
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